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- noun Plural form of
twitching .
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Examples
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Irritative phenomena, such as twitchings or contractures, may come on later.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The preliminary twitchings had appeared in her hand and arm.
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Her left arm had developed involuntary jerkings and twitchings.
THE UNEXPECTED 2010
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He controlled himself, the spasmodic twitchings slowly dying away.
Lost Face 2010
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Otherwise they signal their whereabouts with mouse-like twitchings of the vegetation.
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He still kept his teeth together, but severe muscular contractions attacked his body, strange twitchings and jerkings, till he was all a-quiver and writhing in silent torment.
BÂTARD 2010
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There had been no preliminary twitchings nor tentative essays at writing.
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Not to mention this, this and these moribund twitchings of a dying ex-Christian cult.
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In the meantime, the unfortunate topman was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for fear of exhausting his strength.
Les Miserables 2008
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Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare.
Les Miserables 2008
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